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10 best books like Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken (Daniel Pinkwater): A Taste of Colored Water, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story, Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story, Tough Chicks, Beaver Is Lost, Tweak Tweak, Naamah and the Ark at Night, I'm Not., For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart, Diego Rivera: His World and Ours

A Taste of Colored Water
AuthorMatt Faulkner
ISBN1416916296
You could blame Abbey Finch. If she hadn't come back from town with tales of a fountain bubbling with "colored" water, LuLu and Jelly would not have needed to go see for themselves. But it's not Abbey's fault. It's the early 1960s and colored water isn't the fruit-flavored Technicolor wonder that LuLu...
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
AuthorLemony Snicket
ISBN1932416870
Clever, clever, clever. Here's a snippet of a conversation between the latke and the pine tree:

The latke sighed. "Presents aren't really a big part of Hanukah," it said in a voice hoarse from screaming. "There's nothing wrong with giving gifts to loved ones, of course, but it's more important...
Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story
AuthorThomas F. Yezerski
ISBN0374349134
The 20,000 acres of wetlands in New Jersey now known as the Meadowlands were once home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. But in the four hundred years since European explorers first arrived in the Meadowlands, people have dammed up, drained, built over, and polluted this formerly vibrant...
Tough Chicks
AuthorCece Meng
ISBN0618824154
From the moment Penny, Polly, and Molly hatch from their eggs, the whole farm knows they are truly tough chicks. They wrestle worms, rope roosters, and are often found under the hood of the tractor. All the other animals and even the farmer himself tell Mama Hen to make her chicks good. "They are good!"...
Beaver Is Lost
AuthorElisha Cooper
ISBN0375857656
Oh, no—Beaver is lost! Will he ever find his way back home?

In this nearly wordless picture book by Elisha Cooper, winner of a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book award, a young beaver is accidentally separated from his family. Follow Beaver as he's chased by a dog, visits a zoo,...
Tweak Tweak
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0618998519
Little Elephant and Mama Elephant are going for a walk. “Hold on to my tail,” says Mama. “If you want to ask me a question, tweak twice.” Tweak, tweak! “Mama, what is that?” Little Elephant is curious about the frog, the monkey, the songbird, the butterfly, and the crocodile—and especially...
Naamah and the Ark at Night
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN0763642428
As Noah’s wife sings the animals to sleep, an age-old tale is told afresh in a soothing poetic form brought to life with beautiful collage illustrations.

Naamah is the wife of Noah, and her name means "great singer." For forty days and forty nights, as the ark tosses on storm-wracked seas,...
I'm Not.
AuthorPam Smallcomb
ISBN0375861157
Evelyn is lots of things. Circus performer. Antarctic explorer. I'm not.

Here is the perfect book for children who feel like their outgoing friend is oh-so-talented . . . and they're not. Our shy narrator lists all the things that her best friend, Evelyn, is good at—from jumping on the bed...
For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart
AuthorElizabeth Rusch
ISBN1582463263
By the time she was 12, she was considered one of the finest pianists in Europe, but today few people know her name. Maria Mozart, like her famous brother Wolfgang, was a musical prodigy. The talented siblings toured Europe, playing before kings and empresses, were showered with gifts and favors, and...
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
AuthorDuncan Tonatiuh
ISBN0810997312
This charming book introduces one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera, to young readers. It tells the story of Diego as a young, mischievous boy who demonstrated a clear passion for art and then went on to become one of the most famous painters in the world. 

Duncan...
The Odious Ogre
AuthorNorton Juster
ISBN0545162025
The author and the illustrator of THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH--together again!
This is the story of a really rotten Ogre who is extraordinarily large, exceedingly ugly, unusually angry, constantly hungry, and absolutely merciless. He terrorizes the entire countryside and all the surrounding towns,...
Gershon's Monster: A Story For The Jewish New Year
AuthorEric A. Kimmel
Gershon was not always the best person he could be. True, the mistakes he made were common, ordinary things: a broken promise, a temper lost for no reason, a little untruth told here and there. But unlike most people, Gershon never regretted what he did. He never apologized or asked anyone's forgiveness....
Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher
AuthorLaurel Snyder
ISBN1582463158
While waiting for the bus, a man tells Baxter the pig about the joys of Shabbat dinner. But before Baxter can find out how he, too, can join in the fun, the man has boarded the bus. Soon after, Baxter learns that he certainly cannot be a part of Shabbat dinner because he's not Kosher. So begins one pig's misguided...
The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition
AuthorNina Jaffe
ISBN0805043845
Many years ago in Poland, there lived a rabbi who had a wife and three daughters. One day, the rabbi asks his children a powerful question: "How much do you love me?" His older daughters profess their love in gold and diamonds, but his youngest daughter, Mireleh, declares she loves her father the way meat...
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
AuthorJonah Winter
ISBN0375837388
In this striking picture book biography, an old-timer tells us what made Sandy Koufax such an amazing baseball player. We learn that the beginning of his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers was rocky, that he was shy with his teammates, and experienced discrimination as one of the only Jews in the game....
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
AuthorMeg Wiviott
ISBN0822599295
Benno is a cat who doesn't belong to one person. He belongs to a town; to Hans, the Adler family in 3B, the Schmidts in 3A, Moshe the butcher, Frau Gerber, Mitzi Stein, and Professor Goldfarb. He spends his days visiting each person, following the daughters in the Adler & Schmidt family to school, playing...
Seven Hungry Babies
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN1416954023
Seven bitty baby birds are hungry, hungry, hungry—and they’re letting Mama know. “Feed us! Feed us!” the little ones chant, and Mama calms them as only a mother can—before she frantically flies away to gather more delectable worms. Readers can count with Mama Bird as she zooms back and forth...
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805089373
In the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation. Maria Merian was only a child, but she disagreed. She watched carefully as caterpillars spun themselves cocoons, which opened to reveal summer birds, or butterflies and moths. Maria...
The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough
AuthorKatie Smith Milway
ISBN1554534887
Eleven-year-old María Luz and her family live on a small farm. This year their crop is poor, and they may not have enough to eat or to sell for other essentials, such as health care, school uniforms and books.

When María's father must leave home to find work, she is left in charge of their garden....
Tia Isa Wants a Car
AuthorMeg Medina
ISBN0763641561
A little girl pitches in to help her tía save up for a big old car - and take the whole family to the beach - in a story told with warmth and sweetness.

Tía Isa wants a car. A shiny green car the same color as the ocean, with wings like a swooping bird. A car to take the whole family to the beach. But saving...
My Side of the Car
AuthorKate Feiffer
ISBN0763644056
Wishful thinking and a wonderful daughter-and-dad rapport drive this charming collaboration between Kate Feiffer and her father, Jules Feiffer.

Sadie has wanted to go the zoo forever, but something always gets in the way. Not today! Today they are finally on their way, and nothing can stop...
Tsunami!
AuthorKimiko Kajikawa
ISBN0399250069
Ojiisan, the oldest and wealthiest man in the village, doesn?t join the others at the rice ceremony. Instead he watches from his balcony. He feels something is coming?something he can?t describe. When he sees the monster wave pulling away from the beach, he knows. Tsunami! But the villagers below can?t...
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN1416979786
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks . . . Step back in time in this fossil-filled collection that explores the prehistoric era with Douglas Florian’s...
Henny, Penny, Lenny, Denny, and Mike
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN1481445235
George calls this the "bubble" book, and he's been screaming for "bubbles" multiple times a day for the past few weeks (this narrative is set inside a fish tank, and there are bubbles on every page). It's a cute book -- it teaches a generic lesson about treating others with kindness -- but quite frankly,...
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